Dear Developers, another month, another bit(s). (This report was meant to be sent out about a week ago, so it covers happenings in DPL land for June. Bear with me for further news shortly after the end of DebConf.)

I would like to give a short report about my presence at Med@Tel in Luxembourg. This conference for medicine informatics had some Open Source track and the organisers invited me to give an introduction about Debian Med.

With the release of Squeeze, a new suite is available on all mirrors of the Debian archive. This suite is known as “stable-updates” and replaces the “volatile” archive which was used in previous releases.

The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + DebConf news + Multiarch support + win32-loader.exe available from the mirrors network + Team-specific NM questions + Debian games team meeting

Dear Developers, as per Constitution §7.2, me and the current Project Secretary have agreed in (re-)appointing Kurt Roeckx as Project Secretary for another term. The term will start tomorrow, 20 February 2011, and will last for 1 year. – Kurt Roeckx, Stefano Zacchiroli

The Debian Volatile archive is discontinued starting from the upcoming Debian release 6.0 (“Squeeze”). It is replaced by the suite squeeze-updates on the official mirrors. Its management will move to the Debian Release Team, who already manage regular updates to Debian stable and oldstable.

The Debian Project is pleased to announce that it will be present at several events in the coming weeks, ranging from developer oriented conferences to user oriented trade fairs. As usual, upcoming events are also listed on our website [1].

The Debian Project would like to invite representatives of distributions derived from Debian to participate in a census[1] of Debian derivatives. In addition we would like to invite representatives of distributions derived from Debian to join the Debian derivatives[2] front desk[3][4]. Debian encourages members of derivative distributions to contribute their ideas, patches, bug reports to […]

In the weekend 14-16 January 2011, the Debian Security Team convened in Linux Hotel, Essen. We discussed many things, a lot of security work was done and of course the necessary socialising wasn’t forgotten. We’d like to thank the Linux Hotel for again receiving us in such a great way!

In this issue: + Screenshots on packages.d.o + BTS version tracking explained + Latest features of dpkg-dev + Searching for bugs using Ultimate Debian Database + Re-evaluate the state of backported packages

Hi! One of the side effects of the freeze [1] of our upcoming stable release – squeeze – is that not all tasks get done as quickly as you might be used to in the past. For example, work on things that are not entirely release critical, like processing the NEW queue [2], are not […]

Debian Project At LSM/RMLL 2010: The Debian Project is happy to announce that it will be represented at the Libre Software Meeting / Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (LSM/RMLL) event in Bordeaux, France, this year. At the booth, members of the project will be available for questions and discussions and will give a preview of […]